My remarks today are the fourth set of remarks in a series of China speeches that I asked National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien, FBI Director Chris Wray, and the Attorney General Barr to delivery alongside me. We had a very clear purpose, our real mission was to explain the different facets of America’s relationship with China. The massive imbalances in that relationship that have built up over decades and the Chinese Communist Party’s designs for hegemony. Our goal was to make clear that the threats to Americans that President Trump’s China policy aims to address are clear and our strategy for securing those freedoms established. Ambassador Brian spoke about ideology. FBI Director Wray talked about espionage. Attorney General Barr spoke about economics. And now my goal today is to put it all together for the American people and detail what the China threat means for our economy, for our liberty, and indeed for the future of free democracies around the world. 

Now, before I seem too eager to tear down President Nixon’s legacy I want to be clear that he did what he believed was best for the American people at the time and he may well have been right. He was a brilliant student of China, a fierce Cold Warrior, and a tremendous admirer of the Chinese people, just as I think we all are. He deserves enormous credit for realizing that China was too important to be ignored even when the nation with as weakened because of it’s own self-inflicted Communist brutality. In 1967, in a very famous foreign affairs article, Nixon explained his future strategy. Here’s what he said. He said, “Taking the long view, we simply cannot afford to leave China forever outside of the family of nations. The world cannot be safe until China changes. Thus our aim, to the extent we can, we must influence events. We should, our goal should be to induce change.” And I think that’s the key phrase from the entire article, to induce change. So, with that historic trip to Beijing, President Nixon kicked off our engagement strategy. He nobly sought a freer and safer world and he hoped that the Chinese Communist Party would return that commitment. 

As time went on, American policy makers increasingly presumed that as China became more prosperous it would open up. It would become free at home and indeed present less of a threat abroad. It’d be friendlier. It all seemed, I’m sure, so inevitable. But that age of inevitability is over. The kind of engagement we’ve been pursuing has not brought the kind of change inside of China that President Nixon had hoped to induce. The truth is that our policies and those of other free nations resurrected China’s failing economy only to see Beijing bite the international hands that were feeding it. We opened our arms to Chinese citizens only to see the Chinese Communist Party exploit our free and open society.China sent propagandists into our press conferences, our research centers, our high schools, our colleges, and even into our PTA meetings.We marginalized our friends in Taiwan which later blossomed into a vigorous democracy. We gave the Chinese Communist Party and the regime itself special economic treatment only to see the CCP insist on silence over its human rights abuses as the price of admission for Western companies entering China. 

Ambassador Brian ticked off a few examples just the other day. American Airlines, Delta, United, all removed references to Taiwan from their corporate websites so as not to anger Beijing. And Hollywood, not too far from here, the epic center of American creative freedom and self-appointed arbiters of social justice, self censors even the most mildly unfavorable reference to China. This corporate acquiescence to the CCP happens all over the world, too. And how has this corporate fealty worked? Is it’s flattery rewarded? I’ll give you a quote from the speech that General Barr gave, Attorney General Barr. In a speech last week he said, “That the ultimate ambition of China’s rulers isn’t to trade with the United States, it is to raid the United States ” China ripped off our prized intellectual property and trade secrets causing millions of jobs, all across America. It sucked supply chains away from America and then a widget made of slave labor.It made the world’s key waterways less safe for international commerce. 

President Nixon once said he feared he had created a Frankenstein by opening the world to the CCP. And here we are. Now, people of good faith can debate why free nations allowed these bad things to happen for all these years. Perhaps we were naïve about China’s virulent strain of Communism, or triumphalist after our victory in the Cold War. Or cravenly capitalist or hoodwinked by Beijing’s stock of a peaceful rise.Whatever the reason, whatever the reason, today China is increasingly authoritarian at home and more aggressive in its hostility to freedom everywhere else. And President Trump has said, “Enough.” I don’t think many people on either side of the aisle dispute the facts that I’ve laid out today. But even now, some are insisting that we preserve the model of dialogue for dialogue’s sake. 

Now to be clear, we’ll keep on talking but the conversations are different these days. I travel to Honolulu now just a few weeks back to meet with. It was the same old story. Plenty of words, but literally no offer to change any of the behaviors.

America can no longer ignore the fundamental political and ideological differences between our countries, just as the CCP has never ignored them. My experience in the House Intelligence Committee and then as director of the Central Intelligence Agency and my now two plus years as America’s Secretary of State have led me to this essential understanding. That the only way, the only way to truly change communist China is to act not on the basis of what Chinese leaders say, but how they behave. And you can see American policy responding to this conclusion.President Reagan said that he dealt with the Soviet Union on the basis of trust but verify. When it comes to the CCP, I say we must distrust and verify. 

We, we the freedom loving nations of the world must induce China to change just as President Nixon wanted. We must induce China to change in more creative and assertive ways because Beijing’s actions threaten our people and our prosperity. We must start by changing how our people and our partners perceive the Chinese Communist Party. We have to tell the truth. We can’t treat this incarnation of China as a normal country just like any other. We know that trading with China is not like trading with a normal law abiding nation. Beijing threatens international agreements as suggestions, as conduits for global dominance. But by insisting on fair terms as our trade representative did when he secured our phase one trade deal, we can force China to reckon with its intellectual property theft and policies that have harmed American workers. We know too that doing business with a CCP backed company is not the same as doing business with say, a Canadian company. They don’t answer to independent boards and many of them are state sponsored and so have no need to pursue profits. A good example is Huawei. We stopped pretending Huawei is an innocent telecommunications company, is just showing up to make sure you can talk to your friends. We’ve called it what it is, a true national security threat, and we’ve taken action accordingly. 

We know too, that if our companies invest in China, they may wittingly or unwittingly support the communist party’s gross human rights violations.They may wittingly or unwittingly support the Communist Party’s gross human rights violations. Our Departments of Treasury and Commerce have now sanctioned, blacklisted Chinese leaders and entities that are harming and abusing the most basic rights of people all across the world. Several agencies have worked together on a business advisory to make sure that our CEOs are informed of how their supply chains are behaving inside of China.We know too that not all Chinese students and employees are just normal students and workers that are coming here to make a little bit of money and to garner themselves some knowledge. Too many of them come here to steal our intellectual property and to take this back to their country. The Department of Justice and other agencies have vigorously pursued punishment for these crimes. 

We know that the People’s Liberation Army is not a normal army, too. It’s purpose is to uphold the absolute rule of the Chinese Communist Party elites and expand the Chinese empire, not to protect the Chinese people. And so our Department of Defense has ramped up its efforts, freedom of navigation operations throughout the East and South China Seas and in the Taiwan Strait as well. And we’ve created a Space Force to help deter China from aggression on that final frontier.

And so too, frankly, we’ve built out a new set of policies at the State Department dealing with China, pushing President Trump’s goals for fairness and reciprocity, to rewrite the imbalances that have grown over decades. Just this week we announced the closure of the Chinese Consulate in Houston, because it was a hub of spying and intellectual property theft. We reversed two weeks ago eight years of cheek turning with respect to international law in the South China Sea. We called on China to conform its nuclear capabilities to the strategic realities of our time. And the State Department at every level all across the world has engaged with our Chinese counterparts simply to demand fairness and reciprocity.

I’ve met Chinese men and women of great talent and diligence wherever I go. I’ve met with Uigurs and ethnic Cossacks who escaped Xinjiang’s concentration camps. I’ve talked with Hong Kong’s democracy leaders, from Cardinal Zen to Jimmy Lai.Two days ago in London, I met with Hong Kong freedom fighter Nathan Law, and last month in my office, I heard the stories of Tiananmen Square survivors. One of them’s here today. Wang Dan was a key student who has never stopped fighting for freedom for the Chinese people. Mr. Wang, will you please stand so that we may recognize you? Also with us today is the father of the Chinese democracy movement, Wei Jingsheng. He spent decades in Chinese labor camps for his advocacy. Mr. Wei, will you please stand?

General Secretary Xi is not destined to tyrannize inside and outside of China forever, unless we allow it. Now, this isn’t about containment. Don’t buy that. It’s about a complex new challenge that we’ve never faced before. The USSR was closed off from the free world. Communist China is already within our borders. So we can’t face this challenge alone. The United Nations, NATO, the G7 countries, the G20, our combined economic, diplomatic, and military power is surely enough to meet this challenge if we direct it clearly and with great courage. Maybe it’s time for a new grouping of like-minded nations, a new alliance of democracies. We have the tools. I know we can do it. Now we need the will. To quote scripture, I ask, is our spirit willing but our flesh weak? If the free world doesn’t change, Communist China will surely change us. There can’t be a return to the past practices because they’re comfortable or because they’re convenient. 

Securing our freedoms from the Chinese Communist Party is the mission of our time, and America is perfectly positioned to lead it, because our founding principles give us that opportunity. As I explained in Philadelphia last week, standing staring at Independence Hall, our nation was founded on the premise that all human beings possess certain rights that are unalienable, and it’s our government’s job to secure those rights. It is a simple and powerful truth. It’s made us a beacon of freedom for people all around the world, including people inside of China. 

Indeed, Richard Nixon was right when he wrote in 1967 that the world cannot be safe until China changes. Now it’s up to us to heed his words. Today the danger is clear, and today the awakening is happening. Today the free world must respond. We can never go back to the past. May God bless each of you, may God bless the Chinese people, and may God bless the people of the United States of America. 

Thank you all.

We already know that none of the companies are private companies in PRC, so why do we still allow them to invade our economy system in USA?

Why do not we take any actions to exam the financial status of those companies that are listed in Stock Market as we know that most of them are lying to investors with their fake balance sheets? 

We already know that none of the companies are private companies in PRC, so why do we still allow them to invade our economy system in USA?

Why do not we take any actions to exam the financial status of those companies that are listed in Stock Market as we know that most of them are lying to investors with their fake balance sheets? 

When we are facing a draconian totalitarian regime like CCP’s PRC, we do need to be polite.